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Saw Jacques Demy's film "Donkey Skin" (Peau d'&acirc;ne,1970). It might be his best film--I shouldn't be too arbitrary since I haven't seen his first long feature film 'Lola' and the musical 'The Young Girls of Rochefort', but "Donkey Skin" is certainly much more impressive than "Bay of the Angels" and "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg".

Demy is masterful in deploying colors, and "Donkey Skin" was based on a fairy tale of 17th century instead of melodrama. It also reminds me of Jean Cocteau's "Beauty and the Beast", the similar way of subtlety and magic.